AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W5170M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M +1873%

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

G84

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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